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Zoom, 2006

Starring: Tim Allen, Courteney Cox

Directed by: Peter Hewitt

Written by: Adam Rifkin

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 83 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Rating:3.6

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The mood of Zoom is humorous and feel good. The plot centers around superhuman powers, space travel, and teachers and students. It is a comedy, adventure, and family movie. In approach, Zoom is fantastical. It is based on a book. It is especially suggested for kids, a family outing, and teens.

Summary of Zoom

Peter Hewitt's (GARFIELD: THE MOVIE) family-friendly adventure film, ZOOM, stars Tim Allen as an aging former superhero who is reluctantly called back on the job. Years ago, Jack (Allen) was adopted for a government program that capitalized on the oddities of unusual children. Under the influence of super-strength-building Gamma rays, Jack became the lightning-fast Zoom, and joined the Zenith team, a group of other similarly cultivated superheroes that included his brother, Concussion (Kevin Zegers). But Concussion went bad, betrayed his fellows, and Zoom was the only one to survive; since then, he has rescinded his powers. Now the government, alarmed at Concussion's approach from another dimension, wants to put together another Zenith team with Jack as their leader. The officials, including Chevy Chase and Rip Torn, assemble a motley crew of youths that includes a six-year-old "princess" with superhuman strength (Ryan Newman), and an innocuous-looking chubby boy who can grow parts of his body at will (Spencer Breslin). Two teenagers (Michael Cassidy and Kate Mara) are also on hand, and they fall in love, while the initially reluctant Jack, who suffered much at the hands of the Zenith team and has since become bitter about the possibility of heroes, begins to open up to the kids. He also finds love with the bumbling, admiring child psychologist (Courtney Cox) who has been assigned to the case. Although the story is somewhat formulaic and the characters thinly drawn, the film's message comes across strongly: the qualities that make a misfit are the very ones that give strength.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	11 August 2006
Runtime:	83 min

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Tim Allen

as Jack Shepard / Captain Zoom

Courteney Cox

as Marsha Holloway

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Zoom suffers from following three "X-Men" movies and "Sky High," but even if it preceded them, it'd still qualify as little more than a cheap, ugly, forgettable footnote to the seemingly endless superhero boom. Full Review

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by: Nathan Rabin

Entertainment Weekly

In a feat of dullness quite powerful in its own way, this lifeless family comedy sucks the joy from every joke it touches. Full Review

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by: Lisa Schwarzbaum

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Great movie. Good for the whole family all genres. Action packed and the little girl gives it an appeal to any gender or age Read and rate it

10.April.2011
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by: Bridgette
Bridgette rated this movie0/10

Not really worth the rent. It's a rip-off of the much superior Sky High at best. You can tell the (adult) actors were bored with the script and acted appropriately. I think that only kids younger than twelve would get anything out of this. The... Read and rate it

14.November.2009
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by: MrTangent
MrTangent rated this movie0/10

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